Comparison

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor vs Ruin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor

Easily transform your photos by cropping them into over 400 unique shapes, symbols, and letters. Customize foreground colors, transparency, and size. Enhance your images with filters, frames, and text editing tools before sharing.

Highlights
  • Crop photos into 400+ shapes
  • Customize foreground color and transparency
  • Adjust shape size
  • Apply photo filters and frames
  • Add text and stickers
  • Meme generator
Features
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Transform your pics with a great tool redactor. Crop your photos into one of 400+ awesome Shapes, Symbols, Signs and Letters. Share your pics on popular social networks (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) or save ti camera roll. How it works? - Take a photo or choose from gallery. - Choose your mask shape - Change the foreground color, from more the 500 colors! - Adjust transparency of foreground - Customize the size of your shape *****UNIQUE SHAPES***** - 450+ Total shapes + collage --20 + animals shapes - 20 + balloons shapes - 30 + original shapes - 20 + cartoon shapes - 10+ city shapes - 20+ comics symbols - 25 cool shapes - 24 + circles shapes - 20 + cute shapes - 15 + grunge shapes - 5 horror shapes - 15 iHeart shapes - 20 + invaders shapes - 30 + upper case letters shapes + original signs!!! - 20 + splatter shapes - 25 + superheroes shapes - 20 + weather shapes - many other amazing shapes **CAPTION & STYLE YOUR PIC&COLLAGE WITH AVIARY EDITOR** -- Tons of beautiful photo filters to choose from. Photo enhancer! -- Add Aviary frames to your photo -- Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness -- Remove redeye and blemish -- Draw on your picture. Change color! -- Add texts, stickers very quickly and easily -- Easy to change text color and size -- Easy to move, resize and rotate text -- Enhancement tool to style your photo to perfection -- Meme generator Let us know how you enjoy it. Share with us and your best friends.

About

Ruin

Features
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Turn your photos into glitch art—with a single tap. Ruin transforms any photo into torn, signal-broken glitch art the moment you select it. No sliders to fine-tune and no presets to hunt through. Just choose a photo and it's already ruined—beautifully. Don't like the result? Tap SHUFFLE for a completely different look. Keep going until something clicks. Then adjust the intensity—from subtle scanline shifts to full-screen signal collapse—and save. HOW IT WORKS - Pick a photo — it glitches instantly - Shuffle for a new look every time - Slide to control how hard it breaks - Save to your camera roll WHY RUIN - Instant results, no learning curve - Every shuffle is different - Signal-inspired glitch look: band tears, scanline shifts, RGB split - No account, no sign-up. Your photos are processed on-device and never leave your phone. RUIN PRO (one-time purchase) - Save in full resolution - Remove the watermark Buy once, yours forever. No subscription. Go on. Ruin something beautiful.

Screenshots

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor4 screens
Ruin3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Gradient Shape, Mask Editor at 3 against Ruin's 1. Gradient Shape, Mask Editor also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gradient Shape, Mask Editor sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Ruin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Gradient Shape, Mask Editor versus Ruin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGradient Shape, Mask EditorRuin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNadejda TomaHajime Nakamura

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor

One-time10
  • Shape Maker - Basic$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Cities$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Cool$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Shape Maker - Grunge$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Horror$0.99
  • Shape Maker - I love$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Letters$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Random$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Splatter$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Pro version$3.99
1 purchases

Ruin

One-time1
  • Ruin Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Gradient Shape, Mask Editor free?
Gradient Shape, Mask Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ruin free?
Ruin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gradient Shape, Mask Editor or Ruin have ads?
Neither Gradient Shape, Mask Editor nor Ruin shows ads.

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